English > trickster: 3 senses > noun 2, person | Meaning | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. |
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| Synonyms | deceiver, cheat, cheater, beguiler, slicker |
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| Narrower | bluffer, four-flusher | A person who tries to bluff other people |
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| decoy, steerer | A beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) |
| dodger, fox, slyboots | A shifty deceptive person |
| double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor | A person who says one thing and does another |
| embezzler, defalcator, peculator | someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use |
| falsifier | someone who falsifies / falsifies / falsifies / falsifies |
| finagler, wangler | A deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods |
| forger, counterfeiter | someone who makes copies illegally |
| fortune hunter | A person who seeks wealth through marriage |
| front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman | A person used as a cover for some questionable activity |
| hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender | A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives |
| impersonator, imitator | someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another |
| imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player | A person who makes deceitful pretenses |
| liar, prevaricator | A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly |
| misleader | someone who leads astray (often deliberately) |
| mountebank, charlatan | A flamboyant deceiver |
| obscurantist | A person who is deliberately vague |
| sandbagger | someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you |
| swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter | A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud / fraud |
| two-timer | someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else |
| utterer | someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins |
| Broader | wrongdoer, offender | A person who transgresses moral or civil law |
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| Spanish | estafador, tramposo |
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| Catalan | estafador, trampós |
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| Nouns | trick | an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent |
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| trick | a cunning or deceitful action or device |
